Natalie Portman: Single again. She and Devendra Banhart will remain friends but need space. Perhaps his beard was coming between them. [In Touch, People]

Sharon Stone still has custody of her son, whom she supposedly lost custody of earlier this month. Seems like the court clerk made some kind of error. [TMZ]

Kelly Osbourne on Victoria Beckham and Jennifer Lopez: "I was directly across from them [at a show during Fashion Week]. I've never seen two people pretend to like each other more in my life. They were holding hands, but it looked like Victoria was holding a shitty bit of toilet paper!" [Mirror]

Paul McCartney is in Israel, which banned the Beatles in 1965. But now the Army Radio news station has been playing the Beatles' greatest hits. Although pro-Palestinian groups have urged McCartney to boycott Israel, he's performing tonight for the first time. [LA Times]

Paul McCartney has more Israeli security than when George Bush visits. [Mirror]

Ashley Olsen is on vacation with her beau, Justin Bartha, in Las Vegas. They've been making out in clubs and catching shows and shacking up in the penthouse suite at Caesars Palace. Don't forget the Liberace Museum! It's totally cheesetastic. [E!]

Bret Michaels went to a LensCrafters in Springfield, IL and was mobbed by fans for "about an hour." [UPI]

Oprah has joined the cast of the Disney film The Princess And The Frog, which is the Mouse Co.'s first black princess movie. Maybe she'll keep it from being a totaldisaster? [Reuters]

Lance Armstrong got advice from his ex-wife Kristin before coming out of retirement to do the Tour de France. "Quite frankly, if she had said, 'I don't support it,' or 'I'm not into it,' I wouldn't have done it," he says. [People]

A family has dropped their lawsuit claiming that a hospital caused distress to a dying woman when they moved her to make room for Michael Jackson back in 2005. [Yahoo News]

With Sunday's premiere, The Simpsons will tie Gunsmoke's record of 20 seasons on the air. [USA Today]

"I didn’t want the perfume launch to be boring like Victoria Beckham’s, Kelly Brook and the others. I saw Victoria in pictures wearing the white dress with a kind of furry thing on the back and I just thought she’s on another night out. I had no idea she was supposed to be promoting her new perfume. She didn’t make any effort. She should have a bit more fun with it like I did. I envisaged a beach with a half-naked lady and that’s what I did. Now everyone has seen my new boobs, and I hope I’ve made the public happy." — Katie Price, the "glamour model" known as Jordan. [Mirror]

"I'm only naked for about seven minutes in a show that runs about 2¼ hours." — Daniel Radcliffe, who is supposedly awesome in Equus. [USA Today]

"I'm not too careful what I say. I'm old enough to have my opinions and if they’re not politically correct, then so be it." — Joan Collins. [Daily Express]

"Giving kids whatever they want is disastrous parenting. There’s no sense of something earned. I’m sorry but when you’re 12 you don’t need a new mobile phone every few months just because a new one comes out. I’m not going to buy her the latest phone, I’m not going to buy her an iPod every time one comes out and I’m definitely not going to buy her a pony. As a result, my kids don’t want for very much. They’re not greedy. They’re wonderful, wonderful children. Saying No helps. That’s what parents don’t understand. If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say Yes to them all the time." — Ewan McGregor. [Daily Express]

"It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire [Group of Eight nations] can't find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable disease and hunger. I presume these people [in the Bush administration] know what they're doing. Bankruptcy is a serious business. But this is moral bankruptcy." — Bono, weighing in on President Bush's bailout pan, at the Clinton Global Initiative. [Rush & Molloy]